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This article is too western

None of the segments on pet popularity or ownership deal with countries outside of North America and Europe. You can learn nearly nothing about pets in most of the world through this article. Dvalentine (talk) 02:47, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

The remarks about the church traditionally condemning affection for animals are false. Medieval clergymen never condemned affection for horses or other animals (which was widespread in medieval Europe) even if individual theologians such as Aquinas held an instrumentalist view of animals themselves. Moreover, to claim that modern Westerners (and no others) keep animals as "pets" at least conceals more than it reveals-for example, that there is also MORE INSTRUMENTALISM towards animals in the modern West through factory farming and vivisection.16:28, 15 February 2017 (UTC)70.190.102.49 (talk)

Definition of pet

"Entertainment" is too broad. There are many instances where animals are treated as ends in themselves by their owners without being regarded as "pets" (for instance, the bulls and horses killed in bullfights in what are considered to be "glorious" deaths).-70.190.102.49 (talk) 22:19, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

I was not talking about bulls or horses. I was talking about fish. Why do humans keep fish as pets? DrChrissy ^(talk) 23:10, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Domestic birds

Most companion parrot species are not domestic by any definition. While it may be said that budgies and cockatiels are sufficiently removed from their wild cousins that they are domesticated, the larger parrots are typically only a few generations removed from the jungle and still exhibit their wild behaviours - behaviours that must be modified and dealt with by human owners.

It may appear, in cute YouTube videos and animal shows that parrots like African grey or macaw are domesticated, but they are not, and the cute images you see are the result of many hours, or even years of effort on the part of the humans working with the bird. Dcowan38 (talk) 00:23, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Are you proposing a change to this article? I don't see where this article discusses the "domesticity" of parrots; it simply notes that they are often kept as pets, which is, I believe, a fact and not disputed. Please clarify how your comment might lead to the improvement of the article. General Ization ^Talk 20:07, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

I made the change. The article originally had parrots listed as domestic pet species. I have corrected it to more accurately reflect which birds are domestic, and since there was a category already for wild, which are wild. Had you read the article before commenting on this section, you would have seen that. Had you looked at the previous version, you would have seen what I am referring to. The improvement is removing inaccurate or misleading information and replacing it with correct information, which is always a good thing. Dcowan38 (talk) 00:23, 13 April 2018 (UTC)